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Kind Neighbours. Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages

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Citation

Turpie T (2015) Kind Neighbours. Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages. The Northern World, 70. Leiden: Brill. http://www.brill.com/products/book/kind-neighbours-scottish-saints-and-society-later-middle-ages

Abstract
In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie explores devotion to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later middle ages. He provides fresh insight into the role played by these saints in the legal and historical arguments for Scottish independence, and the process by which first Andrew, and later Ninian, were embraced as patron saints of the Scots. Kind Neighbours also explains the appeal of the most popular Scottish saints of the period and explores the relationship between regional shrines and the Scottish monarchy. Rejecting traditional interpretations based around church-led patriotism or crown patronage, Turpie draws on a wide range of sources to explain how religious, political and environmental changes in the later middle ages shaped devotion to the saints in Scotland.

Keywords
later medieval; cult of the saints; Scotland; St Ninian; St Andrew; St Duthac

StatusPublished
Title of seriesThe Northern World
Number in series70
Publication date31/12/2015
PublisherBrill
Publisher URLhttp://www.brill.com/…ater-middle-ages
Place of publicationLeiden
ISSN of series1569-1462
ISBN9789004298224
eISBN9789004298682

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Dr Tom Turpie

Dr Tom Turpie

Lecturer, History